by Shaun Chamberlin | Oct 28, 2023 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Surviving the Future, Uncategorized
Autumn has always been my favourite season, and over recent years it brings additional succour, signalling time to start preparing in earnest for the winter’s Deeper Dive.
This now-annual tradition has become a real highlight of my year, as a new small group capped at just fifty folk gathers to reflect meaningfully on our tumultuous times, and the ways we might choose to move through them. Starting in January and running online for nine weeks, I find it the perfect complement to the reflective energies of winter.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Dec 7, 2022 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, The Sequel
Dear David,
I miss you. Still.
Ah, I’d planned to put this post up last Tuesday, on the twelfth anniversary of your sudden death, but I was too busy dealing with the flurry of interest in your legacy, so I know you’ll forgive me.
Instead I post it today. I have long had an impulse to burn a copy of the award-winningly beautiful final Lean Logic, to send it to you. And known that it is to be done on a full moon. Somehow it has never quite been the time. Tonight it will be.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 27, 2022 | Cultural stories, David Fleming, Out and about, Surviving the Future
Well, after last winter’s powerful ride, it’s now just six weeks until our second Deeper Dive, this time alongside Stephen Jenkinson, Nate Hagens, Isabelle Frémeaux, Mark Boyle, Sherri Mitchell, Tim DeChristopher, Rob Hopkins and Vandana Shiva, each of whom brings a unique and hard-won perspective on the challenges and joys of life well lived in these times. Together, we’ll feed those into reflecting on our own paths.
It feels a real privilege and honour to be holding such a potent space again this winter, and inviting into it both guests for whom I have such profound respect, and old friends and new — like yourself? — to become part of the enduring community that continues to grow around the work.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 4, 2022 | All Posts, Articles
Originally written as my contribution to the Jihlava Inspiration Forum book, October 2022
The following is my response to the invitation for a brief 1,000 word reflection on the topic:
“How should we transform our relationships for the future? And what can each of us do about it?”
Transforming our relationship ~with~ the future
“The crisis we face is fundamentally one of relating”
The more deeply I reflect on these words from the extraordinary Eve Annecke, the more truth they reveal.
And indeed, useful truth… of that special kind that opens real, practical paths for transforming our future. [i]
That said, I must be clear.
My own dark optimism does not permit me to convey the popular idea that our future can be “anything we dream”; nor even that it will be bright, at least in any common sense of the word. Quite to the contrary, our time is one of lessons long ignored coming back to bite.
Our time is one in which the common assumption that our children will be better off than us has already quietly reversed. One in which the hard consequences to hubris come starkly into view, even as we stubbornly insist that our destiny is off-world, exploring the stars…
by Shaun Chamberlin | Apr 1, 2020 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic, Out and about, Philosophy, Surviving the Future, The Sequel, Transition Movement
December 2020 update: We have reached our cap of 100 participants for the second run of the course, starting Jan 4th 2021, and so have closed enrolments. You can sign up to be notified about our next course here. April 2020 update: Due to overwhelming interest,...
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